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Leprosy · Death

EXERCISE 16 OF 61
Fill at bar 20 (a small one)
161 / 241 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
PART W
PART S
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJSPS15D+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leprosy on drums

241 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 8:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
8:29
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-59, hi-hat through bars 60-75 and silence through bars 76-78, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-39 and 41-47, and 6 more places -- 31.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--g-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Leprosy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-21 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Leprosy?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Leprosy hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

241 bars, about 8:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Leprosy?

11 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED